Windows 10: Old recycle bin folder points to new recycle bin folder instead of the original?

So I recently built myself a new desktop, and I want to decommission the old one for new uses. I've backed up most of the data off the old one, except for the old windows 10 boot drive my new desktop is windows 11. I went onto my old desktop, opened up command prompt as administrator, and just ROBOCOPYd the entire C drive into a new folder on a secondary drive on my windows 11 pc with the intent to sort out all of the garbage and keep what was necessary later followed up by deleting the entire folder.There's been a few annoying things by choosing to do it this way. First, I decided to do i

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recycle bin

Hi George,

To prevent your files from being deleted from the Recycle Bin, we suggest increasing the maximum file size your Recycle Bin can keep by following the steps below:

• Right click on the Recycle Bin icon.
• Under the Settings for selected location, select Custom size.
• Fill up the box for your allotted maximum file size for your Recycle Bin.

Let us know if you need further assistance.

 

Document folder renamed as recycle bin

I'm running a 1TB hybrid HD as C: drive in my PC and a 4TB Hard Drive as an internal backup which contains various archives of music, movies, old videos that have been transferred to digital format and so on.

These list as

F:Cinema

F:Music

and so on, all perfectly normal.

For unknown reasons the F:music folder has been renamed and identified as the recycle bin. If i enter it i can see the items in the main C: drive recycle bin, however if i go into properties for the F:recycle bin and tell it to show the hidden files then
it will list all the sub-folders and files but wont let me access it. It also lists all the sub-folders as being present and the correct folder size

If i try and fix the F:recycle bin it tries to change the C: genuine recycle bin instead

If i run recuva it will let me identify and retrieve most of the individual files

If i create a new folder named F:music the system instantly renames it to F:recycle bin, claims it already exists and rejects the new name

Apart from updating GOM player nothing has been changed on the system since yesterday so i'm puzzled what has caused the renaming and how to fix it.

I can recover the files, probably in their entirety or replace large parts of it from old data but i need to know what caused it so it doesnt happen again.

 

recycle bin

I followed the instructions for showing recycle bin on my desktop, the box next to "recycle bin" is checked in my desktop settings menu, but there is no recycle bin on my desktop. I searched "recycle bin" in "my computer" folder and in my user folder, and it cannot be found. I'm trying to recover some files I deleted. ???? Is it possible I accidentally deleted my recycle bin at some point?